Finally was able to dive into this book a bit last night.
Read the first two stories. Awesome stuff about Rube Marquard trading himself to Brooklyn in all of 10 minutes over the phone.
Oh yeah, Bill James, Rube Marquard has a message for you:
It was also interesting reading the Tommy Leach stuff and how much of it was put into the Ken Burns documentary Baseball, some paragraphs word for word. Also Leach talking about how baseball in his day was more exciting brand of baseball because of more triples and inside the park homeruns.
Read the first two stories. Awesome stuff about Rube Marquard trading himself to Brooklyn in all of 10 minutes over the phone.
Oh yeah, Bill James, Rube Marquard has a message for you:
It was also interesting reading the Tommy Leach stuff and how much of it was put into the Ken Burns documentary Baseball, some paragraphs word for word. Also Leach talking about how baseball in his day was more exciting brand of baseball because of more triples and inside the park homeruns.
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